co‐editor of the journal Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics (Taylor & Francis) and of the book series Communication Disorders Across Languages (Multilingual Matters). She has published widely in journal and book form and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 2014 to study bilingual Irish–English communication in a retirement home in the west of Ireland. Among her recent publications are co‐edited collections on sonority and on cross‐linguistic language acquisition.
Ryan Nelson, PhD, CCC‐SLP, holds the rank of associate professor and Head of the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Prior to joining the faculty at UL Lafayette, Dr Nelson held the rank of assistant professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has worked as a speech‐language pathologist in public school settings and in private practice. His work embodies collaboration with mentors, former students, and colleagues from many disciplines. Dr Nelson has published and presented nationally and internationally in the areas of language impairment, literacy, counseling in communicative disorders, qualitative research, eye‐tracking, and autism.
Valerie Pereira is Senior Lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery. She is a major academic teaching staff member for the Master of Science in Speech‐Language Pathology, and is the Programme Leader of the Professional Diploma in Communication Disorders and Sciences. She is also an Honorary Assistant Professor with the University of Hong Kong, Department of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, as the Speech Therapist for the Joint Cleft & Nasendoscopy Clinics. She obtained her PhD from UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK, with a dissertation titled The effect of maxillary osteotomy on speech, nasality and velopharyngeal function, and was previously with the North Thames Regional Cleft Service and the Supraregional Craniofacial Service, both based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust in London. She is the current Chair of the Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Committee of the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders.
Patricia A. Prelock, PhD, is Provost and Senior Vice‐President, University of Vermont. She is a Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences, and Professor of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr Prelock is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. She was named an ASHA Fellow in 2000 and a University of Vermont Scholar in 2003. In 2015 Dr Prelock was named a Distinguished Alumna of the University of Pittsburgh. In 2016, she received the ASHA Honors of the Association. She is a Board‐Certified Specialist in Child Language and was named a Fellow in the National Academies of Practice (NAP) in speech‐language pathology in 2018. She was the 2013 President for the American Speech‐Language‐Hearing Association.
Susan Rvachew, PhD, S‐LP(C), ASHA Fellow, is a Professor at McGill University and Director of the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders. Her research is concerned with the normal development of speech and phonology, the treatment of speech sound disorders in children, and the relationship between phonological disorders and delays in the acquisition of literacy skills. Dr Rvachew has published over 90 articles, chapters and encyclopedia entries as well as two books. She has also developed three phonology assessments for French‐speaking children, and three English‐language software tools for assessment and intervention.
Jane Russell is now retired from clinical and academic work. For many years she was Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist working with children and adults with orofacial anomalies and velopharyngeal dysfunction at the West Midlands Centre for Cleft Palate based in Birmingham, UK. She specialized in this field from 1978, and in 1991 completed her PhD with a dissertation entitled Speech development in children with cleft lip and palate. She is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Following retirement from clinical work, Jane continued to contribute to research in various ways including speech analysis. Unfortunately, she could no longer continue with this, after a change in personal circumstances in 2017.
Brittany Falcon Rutland, MCD, CCC‐SLP is a doctoral candidate at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where she is specializing in fluency disorders. She is a person who stutters and has nine years of experience working in a private practice with children and adults who stutter. She has presented at local, national, and international conferences.
Kathleen Scaler Scott is a practicing speech‐language pathologist, Board Certified Fluency Specialist, and Associate Professor of Speech‐Language Pathology at Monmouth University, New Jersey, USA. Her research interests are largely in cluttering, atypical disfluency, and clinician training and treatment effectiveness. She is the co‐editor of Cluttering: A Handbook of Research, Intervention, and Education (Psychology Press, 2011), co‐author of Managing Cluttering: A Comprehensive Guidebook of Activities (Pro‐Ed, Inc., 2013), and author of the newly released book Fluency Plus: Managing Fluency Disorders in Individuals with Multiple Diagnoses (SLACK, Inc.). Dr Scaler Scott has spoken nationally and internationally on the topics of fluency and social pragmatic disorders. She was the first Coordinator of the International Cluttering Association, and is the recipient of the 2018 Deso Weiss Award for Excellence in the Field of Cluttering, and the 2018 Professional of the Year award from the National Stuttering Association.
Debbie Sell, PhD, OBE, is a Senior Research Fellow at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH), London, UK, previously having been Head of Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Services and Lead Therapist in the North Thames Regional Cleft Service there. Debbie now focuses on research, mentoring, supervision, teaching, and independent clinical practice. Her PhD study in Sri Lanka (speech in patients with unoperated and late operated cleft palate) led to that country’s only SLT training course. Debbie has led on developing and testing speech outcome tools in cleft palate/VPI, setting standards for measuring speech outcomes and has participated in several multicenter national and international studies of speech outcome. Debbie’s current interests focus on parents undertaking articulation therapy in children with cleft palate, supported by therapists and technology, and is a co‐Founder, together with Dr Triona Sweeney, of Speech at Home ([email protected]). Debbie is a Fellow of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, has co‐edited two text books and has more than 90 peer reviewed publications.
Elizabeth C. Serpentine, PhD, CCC‐SLP, is a speech‐language pathologist with almost 20 years of experience in the public school system. She currently works in the Lower Merion School District and also teaches as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Special Education at Saint Joseph’s University, and in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Baylor University. She also holds a Supervisor of Special Education Certificate in the state of Pennsylvania. Her areas of clinical and research expertise include the use of evidence‐based practice, social competence, and transition/employment issues for individuals with autism spectrum disorder.
Pamela Snow is Professor of Cognitive Psychology in the School of Education at La Trobe University, Bendigo, Australia. She is a speech‐language pathologist and a registered psychologist. Her research spans various aspects of risk in childhood and adolescence, particularly as these pertain to the emergence of oral language skills and the transition to literacy in the school years. Accordingly, she has researched children and adolescents in state care, adolescents in the youth justice system and also those in flexible education settings, and early years reading instruction practice in mainstream schools. She is a Life Member of Speech Pathology Australia, and in 2017 co‐authored Making Sense of Interventions for Children with Developmental Disorders with Dr Caroline Bowen, AM. Pamela is on the Editorial Board of First Language and is an Associate Editor of The Reading League Journal.
Vesna Stojanovik is a Professor of Clinical Linguistics at the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences at the University of Reading. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature and
